The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and specialized. Spend enough time scrolling through TikTok or Instagram and you will ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Scientists studying how people understand speech have uncovered evidence that challenges long-standing ideas about language ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

Traditionally, explicit long-term memory (the intentional, conscious recollection of things and experiences) is divided into ...

Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person.

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...